Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Harry Connick Jr. - Branford Marsalis | 2012-03-25 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Cory Booker and John Lewis | 2012-03-25 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | Barbara Walters - Geoffrey Canada | 2012-04-01 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Kevin Bacon - Kyra Sedgwick | 2012-04-08 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Angela Buchdahl - Rick Warren - Yasir Qadhi | 2012-04-15 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal | 2012-04-22 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Samuel L. Jackson - Condoleezza Rice - Ruth Simmons | 2012-04-29 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Sanjay Gupta - Margaret Cho - Martha Stewart | 2012-05-06 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | John Legend - Wanda Sykes - Margarett Cooper | 2012-05-13 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Michelle Rodriguez - Adrian Grenier - Linda Chavez | 2012-05-20 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | In Search of Our Fathers | 2014-09-23 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Born Champions | 2014-09-30 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Our American Storytellers | 2014-10-07 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | Roots of Freedom | 2014-10-14 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | The Melting Pot | 2014-10-21 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | We Come From People | 2014-10-28 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Our People, Our Traditions | 2014-11-04 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | The British Invasion | 2014-11-11 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Ancient Roots | 2014-11-18 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Decoding Our Past | 2014-11-25 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 1 | The Stories We Tell | 2016-01-05 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 2 | The Irish Factor | 2016-01-12 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 3 | In Search of Freedom | 2016-01-19 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 4 | Tragedy + Time = Comedy | 2016-01-26 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 5 | Visionaries | 2016-02-02 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 6 | War Stories | 2016-02-09 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 7 | Family Reunions | 2016-02-16 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Pioneers | 2016-02-23 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 9 | The Long Way Home | 2016-03-01 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 10 | Maps of Stars | 2016-03-08 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 1 | The Impression | 2017-10-03 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 2 | Unfamiliar Kin | 2017-10-10 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 3 | Puritans and Pioneers | 2017-10-17 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 4 | The Vanguard | 2017-10-24 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 5 | Immigrant Nation | 2017-10-31 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 6 | Black Like Me | 2017-11-07 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 7 | Children of the Revolution | 2017-11-14 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 8 | Relatives We Never Knew We Had | 2017-11-21 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 9 | Southern Roots | 2017-12-12 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 10 | Funny Business | 2017-12-19 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 1 | Grandparents and Other Strangers | 2019-01-08 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 2 | Mystery Men | 2019-01-15 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 3 | Reporting on the Reporters | 2019-01-22 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 4 | Dreaming of a New Land | 2019-01-29 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 5 | Freedom Tales | 2019-02-05 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 6 | Roots in Politics | 2019-02-12 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 7 | No Laughing Matter | 2019-02-19 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 8 | Hard Times | 2019-02-26 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 9 | The Eye of the Beholder | 2019-04-02 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 10 | All in the Family | 2019-04-09 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 1 | Hollywood Royalty | 2019-10-08 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 2 | Off the Farm | 2019-10-15 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 3 | Homecomings | 2020-01-07 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 4 | This Land Is My Land | 2020-01-14 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 5 | Beyond the Pale | 2020-01-21 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 6 | Secrets and Lies | 2020-01-28 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 7 | Science Pioneers | 2020-02-04 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 8 | Slave Trade | 2020-02-11 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 9 | Italian Roots | 2020-02-18 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 10 | Criminal Kind | 2020-02-25 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 11 | Fashion's Roots | 2020-10-13 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 12 | DNA Mysteries | 2020-10-20 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 13 | War Stories | 2020-11-10 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 14 | Flight | 2020-11-17 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 15 | Breaking Silences | 2021-01-05 | 60 min |
Season 6 | Episode 16 | Coming to America | 2021-01-12 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 1 | To the Manor Born | 2021-01-19 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 2 | Against All Odds | 2021-01-26 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 3 | No Irish Need Apply | 2021-02-02 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 4 | The Shirts on Their Backs | 2021-02-09 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 5 | Write My Name in the Book of Life | 2021-02-16 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 6 | Country Roots | 2021-02-23 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 7 | The New World | 2021-04-13 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 8 | Anchored to the Past | 2021-04-20 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 9 | On Broadway | 2021-04-27 | 60 min |
Season 7 | Episode 10 | Laughing on the Inside | 2021-05-04 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 1 | Hidden in the Genes | 2022-01-04 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 2 | Children of Exile | 2022-01-04 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 3 | Activist Roots | 2022-01-11 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 4 | Things We Don't Discuss | 2022-01-25 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 5 | Mexican Roots | 2022-02-01 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 6 | Fighters | 2022-02-08 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 7 | Forgotten Journeys | 2022-02-15 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 8 | Songs of the Past | 2022-02-22 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 9 | Watchmen | 2022-04-12 | 60 min |
Season 8 | Episode 10 | Where Did We Come From? | 2022-04-19 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 1 | Hidden Kin | 2023-01-03 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 2 | Salem's Lot | 2023-01-10 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 3 | Secret Lives | 2023-01-17 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 4 | Far From Home | 2023-01-24 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 5 | Rising From the Ashes | 2023-01-31 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 6 | Family: Lost and Found | 2023-02-07 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 7 | Chosen | 2023-02-14 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 8 | And Still I Rise | 2023-02-21 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 9 | Anchormen | 2023-02-28 | 60 min |
Season 9 | Episode 10 | Out of the Past | 2023-03-07 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 1 | Born To Sing | 2024-01-02 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 2 | Forever Young | 2024-01-09 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 3 | Fathers and Sons | 2024-01-16 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 4 | Buried Secrets | 2024-01-23 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 5 | Hold the Laughter | 2024-01-30 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 6 | Far and Away | 2024-02-06 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 7 | The Brick Wall Falls | 2024-02-13 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 8 | Mean Streets | 2024-02-20 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 9 | In the Blood | 2024-04-02 | 60 min |
Season 10 | Episode 10 | Viewers Like You | 2024-04-09 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 1 | Larger Than Life | 2025-01-07 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 2 | La Famiglia | 2025-01-14 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 3 | Stranger Than Fiction | 2025-01-21 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 4 | Dreamers One and All | 2025-01-28 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 5 | Family Recipes | 2025-02-04 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 6 | Latin Roots | 2025-02-11 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 7 | The Ties That Bind | 2025-02-18 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 8 | The Butterfly Effect | 2025-02-25 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 9 | Moving on Up | 2025-04-01 | 60 min |
Season 11 | Episode 10 | Finding My Roots | 2025-04-08 | 60 min |